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Under the background of dealing with global warming, the widespread use of the internet provides a new idea for countries to develop a low-carbon economy at the right time. Based on the panel data of 70 countries from 1995–2018, this paper empiricall...

Increasing farmers’ incomes and empowering rural revitalization through the digital economy are important issues of widespread concern in our society today. From the perspective of aging, this paper uses the 2016, 2018, and 2020 China Family Pa...

For more than two decades, developed countries have been confronted with two trends that have implications for the emergence of engaging senior citizens in the digital environment. On the one hand, there is an increasing proportion of senior citizens...

This paper examines whether there is a significant positive relationship between making digital payments and the following variables: 1. Internet usage, 2. digital skills, and 3. education. Data for 114 countries are gathered from the Global Findex d...

This paper examines the impact of the internet usage and knowledge intensive activities on households’ healthcare expenditures Similarly, the paper aims to recognize and understand, from a value-creation perspective, the correlation between: in...

Gaming behaviors have been significantly influenced by smartphones. This study was designed to explore gaming behaviors and clinical characteristics across different gaming device usage patterns and the role of the patterns on Internet gaming disorde...

Transitioning to a low-carbon electricity model can significantly reduce carbon emissions and offer substantial environmental benefits. A critical factor in this transition is residents’ willingness to pay for low-carbon electricity, which can...

The Manifesto for a European research network into Problematic Usage of the Internet was published in May 2018. It was written from the perspective of the COST Action Network, a programme of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology CA16207...

Control charts, which are one of the major tools in the Statistical Process Control (SPC) domain, are used to monitor a process over time and improve the final quality of a product through variation reduction and defect prevention. As a novel develop...

Background/Objectives: The number of overweight and obese people has significantly increased in the world, and this phenomenon is referred to as globesity. Globally increasing obesity has become one of the major problems to be dealt with for countrie...

The purpose of this study is to verify the influence of internet usage frequency on women’s fertility intentions and to examine the mediating effects of gender role attitudes, under the influence of internet usage frequency that affects women’s ferti...

Background/Objectives: This study aimed to identify the relationships between individuals’ perceptions of leisure boredom, internet usage habits, and gambling motivations, focusing on analyzing the predictive effects by age category in adults....

In cross-entity Internet of Vehicles (IoV) data sharing, a digital contract can define the authorized conditions of data use, but the actual usage behavior and the integrity of the connector responsible for policy enforcement may continue to change a...

As the usage of social media continues to grow and local governments expand their promotional efforts, more internet celebrity cities (ICCs) are emerging as popular tourist destinations. To investigate the internal mechanisms that affect tourists&rsq...

Problematic Internet Use (PIU) is a broad term that covers problems with Internet use that result in psychological, social, academic or professional difficulties. The aim of our study was to identify individuals particularly vulnerable to developing...

This paper aims to analyze the influence that certain social factors (education and area of residence) have on the most likely scenarios people encounter in their online activities. Among the possible scenarios of using the internet, based on everyda...

The complementarity interference (CI) model suggests that the Internet may either inhibit or facilitate interpersonal communications. This paper empirically examines the impact of Internet usage on interpersonal interactions, using a micro dataset fr...

Introduction: A positive association between Internet usage time and Internet addiction among adolescents and adults has been frequently reported; however, studies of working adults focusing on weekdays and holidays are limited. Therefore, this study...

This study assesses differences within the African American population with respect to internet activity. Using survey data, we find wide variations within the population. While some segments of African Americans are indeed less likely to perform cer...

The advent of Internet has provided banks an opportunity to reduce costs, increase customer base, and mass customize by delivering their products and services through this medium. A flurry of studies on Internet banking (IB) has since emerged. The ma...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has led our society to lead a life different than before. People, including those with disabilities, have come to rely on information from the Internet. However, there is a lack of empirical studies on the...

Phubbing, defined as the disruption of social relationships and interactions due to excessive cell phone use, is becoming an increasing concern in modern society. Since one of the primary motivations for cell phone use is internet access, it is cruci...

Radio-frequency spectrum resources are finite and scarce, but their demand is increasing exponentially every year. Therefore, wireless network resources are too expensive to be wasted. To avoid waste, pricing techniques can efficiently control resour...

This paper discusses the meaning and the role of Trust and Reputation in Internet-of-Service and e-Commerce environments following a comparative case study. Both environments represent paradigms through which the Internet is seen as a huge infrastruc...

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the heightened risk of school closures and mental disorders has made adolescents particularly vulnerable to developing internet gaming disorder (IGD). There have been reports of increased time spent playin...

This paper aims to explore the relationship between the Big Five model of personality traits and social media usage in a Swedish context. The paper consists of three representative studies of the Swedish population in the age range 16 to 85. In Study...

With the vigorous development of the medical industry in China, residents’ health has been significantly improved. However, along with the income gap, urban–rural gap, and healthcare resource gap caused by economic development, health ine...

This paper outlines the grand challenges in global sustainability research and the objectives of the FP7 Future Internet PPP program within the Digital Agenda for Europe. Large user communities are generating significant amounts of valuable environme...

In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of online fraud cases. However, research on crime geography has paid little attention to online crimes, especially to the influencing factors behind their spatial distributions. Online fr...

The WHO has stated that the number of senior citizens above age 65 across the world will double by the year 2050: in the UK, the whole population is projected to grow by about 2.5% over a decade, from mid-2018. Although people are living longer, they...

The effects of Internet education on economic growth are examined using a cross-section of 36 high-income countries. Internet usage rates are employed as a proxy for Internet education across countries. Regression results show that the frequent usage...

This study focuses on perceived value, which is not mentioned in previous internet-only bank studies, to analyze the popularity of internet-only banks. It does this by exploring the relationships between the perceived value and usage intention of cus...

Recently, the Internet of Things (IoT) has attracted wide attention from many fields, especially healthcare, because of its large capacities for information perception and collection. In this paper, we present an IoT-based home telehealth system for...

Micro and small industries (MSIs) must utilize digital technology if they hope to meet obstacles and endure in a market that is always evolving owing to technological advancements. This study aims to examine the capacity of business factors, marketin...

Internet usage may help promote the physical and mental health of older adults living in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACF). There is little evidence of how these older citizens use internet services. This systematic review aims to explore the t...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a transition to online services in almost all aspects of life. Today, online access is an important aspect of child well-being more than ever. The aim of the study was to investigate online activities and gender differenc...

With the extensive deployment and application of the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and 6G technologies and edge intelligence, the volume of data generated by IoT and the number of intelligence applications derived from these data are rapidly growing....

With the major advances made in internet of vehicles (IoV) technology in recent years, usage-based insurance (UBI) products have emerged to meet market needs. Such products, however, critically depend on driving risk identification and driver classif...

This study presents an architectural framework for the blockchain-based usage-based insurance (UBI) policy auction mechanism in the internet of vehicles (IoV) applications. The main objective of this study is to analyze and design the specific blockc...

Construction projects are characterized by fragmented project organizations, complex stakeholder coordination, and inefficient information communication, which often hinder collaborative project management and digital coordination efficiency in the a...

The Internet of Remote Things (IoRT) offers an exciting landscape for the development and deployment of remote wireless sensing nodes (WSNs) which can gather useful environmental data. Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) provide an ideal network to...

Objective: To examine the associations between internet use and overweight/obesity in people aged 15–49 years in Nepal and the extent to which these associations differ by biological sex. Materials and methods: The study analyzed the nationally repre...

The purpose of this study was to elucidate the relationship between the severity of Internet addiction and various media-related applications. The participants were junior high school students between 12 and 15 years old. A total of 529 students (283...

Increasing availability of the internet has resulted in the increased prevalence of problematic online behaviors. Reliable and affordable neurobiological and psychological biomarkers that distinguish problematic internet use (PIU) from functional onl...

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the mediating effects of individual affect and relationship satisfaction on the relationship between self-esteem and Problematic Internet Use (PIU). Affect was measured using the Positive and Negat...

We used longitudinal data to investigate the relationship between computer use in internet cafés and smoking/drinking behavior among Chinese adolescents and young adults. Data are from two waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (2004 and 2006...

It has been previously reported that the improper prescribing of antibiotic eye drops is common among orthokeratology (ortho-k) practitioners. Guidelines have since been developed and disseminated to improve their understanding and implementation of...

Background: Smoking rates among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people significantly exceed that of heterosexuals. Media interventions are an important part of tobacco control efforts, but limited information is available on LGB people’s media use....

This paper introduces thorough comparative and interoperability analyses involving a browser-based P2P video streaming approach utilizing WebRTC (web real-time communication), along with WebRTC hybrid solutions developed using the React Native framew...

Extant literature captures the benefits and risks concerning young adults’ use of digital technologies and platforms, but it does not unilaterally recognize the drivers of problematic digital behavior. Those drivers might differ across dimensio...